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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ward meet Demond?

2. When Ward would visit Mississippi during breaks from college, where would she stay?

3. What hurricane hit Mississippi when Ward's father was 13?

4. Where did the author's father move to in the Prologue?

5. How old was De'Sean when Ward's mother kicked Nerissa out?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ward's mother want to stay in California?

2. What type of party did Ward have for her seventh birthday?

3. What did Ward's mother look like when she and Ward's father were first married?

4. How did Ward and her brother Joshua spend their days at the beginning of "We Are Wounded"?

5. What did Ward say about the names of her hometown?

6. What were the circumstances of Ward's birth?

7. What did Ward's classmates from Michigan do during the summer?

8. Why in the 1900s did adults in DeLisle arrange visits with other communities in Alabama or Louisiana?

9. How did Ward's great-great grandfather die?

10. What did Ward's maternal grandmother remember about traveling to visit relatives north of DeLisle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Substance abuse is common in Ward's hometown. How does substance abuse affect the black community Ward has grown up in? How does substance abuse affect her life and the life of her family and friends?

Essay Topic 2

There seemed to be a cycle that Ward, her family, and friends lived. What was the cycle that affected their lives? In what way were they relieving events that had happened to their ancestors? How did that repetition of history affect them and the lives they lived?

Essay Topic 3

Ward struggled with thoughts of suicide after her brother's death. Why did she struggle with those thoughts? What were some ways that she tried to keep herself from committing suicide? What was the most important reason for not committing suicide and how did that keep her living?

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